"CAREY, DIANNE - CALL TO ARMS" - читать интересную книгу автора (Carey Diane)

pushed her tongue against her teeth. did he want an honest answer? did
he want to hear what she really meant? but weyoun saved her from having
to speak as he drifted forward to odo, spread his hands, and gazed in
obsequious adoration at the shapeshifter. "founder... we are honored by
your decision to remain with us." odo blistered and stiffened. "i'm not
here as a founder," his gravelly voice returned. "i'm the station's
security chief." kira bit back a grin. she knew what that meant to odo,
and also how much of a lesser thing it must seem to weyoun.

"whatever you say," weyoun allowed. "nevertheless, having a... a god...
walk among us is most gratifying." "! agree," dukat snapped, butchering
the silliness. he all but slapped odo on the shoulder--but luckily kept
from doing that. "you, me, the major, together again... it should be
most interesting. now, if you'll excuse me, i'll be in the commander's
office." dukat strode off, flanked by damar and weyoun, swarmed from
behind by their jem hadar stooges. quark bugged his eyes meaningfully,
shook his knobby head, and veered off toward his bar. a moment later,
kira and odo were standing alone on the promenade, and the irritating
part was over. the hard part... that was still to come. kira opened and
closed her hands, then opened them again and tried to leave them that
way. might as well pry open clamshells.

"i don't know how he avoided rubbing it in," she muttered. odo watched
the last jem hadar disappear down the curved corridor through the mist
of smoke leftover from the ruptured vent main. "rubbing what in?"

"he didn't say, 'my' office. i'd have expected that from dukat. his
sarcasm was always poorly veiled." "maybe he's changed," odo huffed.

"oh, yes," kira said with a bitter twitch. "he's mellowed into a real
sweetheart. anybody can see that."

"where do you think they're going now? to the captain's office?"

"probably. they'll have to go through ops. i wish i could be there when
dukat and that smarmy weyoun see what they have to rebuild in order to
use this station."

"don't enjoy the dream too much, major," odo warned. "dukat is a
soldier. he'll be expecting the burnouts. he knows captain sisko would
leave him with as crippled a station as possible."

"if not for that damned treaty bajor signed, we could've crippled it a
lot more," kira said through her teeth. "but i guess we have to be able
to breathe if we're going to keep living here."

"yes, we do. and we must bide time. weyoun's first priority will be to
dismantle the mine field so reinforcements can come through from the
gamma quadrant. he'll have to let dukat handle that. the Эorta are
politicians, intermediaries... not soldiers." kira looked at him. "are